What this is
English regular Pokémon card sets roughly halved under Mega Evolution (2025–26) against Scarlet & Violet (2023–24): median printed cards fell from 186.5 to 91, and with secret cards from 241 to 124.
How it’s built
- Compared 8 Scarlet & Violet regular sets with 6 Mega Evolution regular sets (one still without a secret count), from Bulbapedia's lists.
- Read the Japanese-equivalent column to see what each English set is built from.
What we assumed
- Bulbapedia's set lists are accurate.A fan source; set totals are widely published.
- The one set without a secret count does not change the medians much.It is left out of the secret-card figures until its count is announced.
Sanity check
Secret cards per set fell from a median of 59.5 to 36, but their share rose from 24.79% to 29.24% because sets shrank. Scarlet & Violet English sets merged two Japanese products or added 40–89 cards; Mega Evolution sets add 3–14 to one.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Median secret per set SV: 59.5
- Median secret per set ME: 36
- Change printed: -51.2%
- Change printed plus secret: -48.5%
- Flow note: 2026 excludes Delta Reign secret (TBA)
- printed median 186.5 -> 91 (-51.2%)
- printed+secret 241 -> 124 (-48.5%)
- secret per set median 59.5 -> 36
- share 24.79% -> 29.24%
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